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BIG
NEWS! Studio Arrabbiata has moved operations to the Jersey
Shore Arts Center in Ocean Grove, NJ. The historic building (on the right) is the former Neptune
High School, built in the 1890's and recently restored as a center for arts related businesses and groups of all kinds- visual
artists, theater, dance. Studio Arrabbiata is is sharing space with Social Animal Press . Photos of the studio space are on the Home page.
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Jersey Shore Arts Center
Ocean Grove, NJ
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The entrance to Studio Arrabbiata
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I've started a blog devoted to life around the studio.
It provides an inside look at what I'm up to- new work in progress, information about exhibitions, workshops and studio events,
and whatever else I feel like. Besides the many links to it on this site, you can go to it directly at http://studioarrabbiata.blogspot.com. Social Animal Press hosts a discussion/critique
group in the studio on the first Monday of every month, from 7 pm to 9 pm, or whenever it breaks up. Artists in
all media are invited to bring a piece or two and join the professional level discussion. The September 2010 critique group will be pushed to the 2nd week of the
month to get it away from the Labor Day holiday. We'll meet on September 13th from 7 to 9 pm.
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My print on the right is one of eight woodcuts in my
supermarket series that was part of the Belmar Urban Myth Exhibition at the Belmar Arts Council. The show also featured the debut of my new digital film, The Dog Food Story, based on the print. The
show was on view through August 27th.
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Scenes from the Grand Opening #22 woodcut
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The Floating World: Tattoo Studio hand colored woodcut
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The print to the left was part of the 35th Annual Printmaking
Council of New Jersey Member Exhibition, called Where Have We Been? The show was first exhibited
at the Somerset County Courthouse Galleries from March 1 through April 9, 2010. The
whole show was also on display at the PCNJ Main Gallery from May 15 through July 24, 2010.
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My most recent solo exhibition
was in the Bing-Davis Memorial Gallery in the Edgar Fine Arts Hall at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, from November
13 through December 18, 2008. The print to the right was among the 44 woodcuts that I had on display. The
show also included selections from my Everyman, Ecclesiastes, and Scenes from the Grand Opening series. Examples of
some of those works and the stories behind those series can be found here. More
gallery information is available at www.uiu.edu/art.
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Demonstrating woodcut at Georgian Court University in 1999
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I recently
taught a two day woodcut workshop at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey. It's
a workshop that I have taught there several times before. I show some representative examples of my work, as well as
prints by dozens of other relief printmakers. Then students start on their own blocks. Over the course of the
weekend I demonstrate basic cutting and printing, as well as discuss the wider possibilities of woodcuts. I'm there
to help students turn their ideas into finished prints. Information about future woodcut
workshops will be posted here as they are scheduled.
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